Summary

This is a matched-cohort study designed to assess the health impact of a rural demand-driven
water and sanitation intervention that provides piped treated water and household level
pour-flush latrines and bathing rooms, as implemented by Gram Vikas.

Study Design

Rural villages in which Gram Vikas has fully implemented its water supply and sanitation (Mantra) intervention. Intervention villages must: 1) be within 3 hours travel to the study office in Brahmapur, 2) have started the intervention by January 2003, and 3) have completed the intervention by January 2013.

Rural villages that have been matched with intervention villages on demographics and other criteria. The sampling frame for control villages is limited to those: 1) within 3 hours travel to the study office in Brahmapur, and 2) within Gram Panchayats which do not include an intervention village and are not adjacent to an intervention village, to minimize spillover effects. In addition, both intervention and control villages must appear in the Government of India Census in 2001.

time frame:
Point prevalence assessed in rounds 2 (approximately 90-120 days after study commencement) and 4 (approximately 240 to 360 days after study commencement)

Height-for-age among children < 2 years

time frame:
Assessed approximately every 90 days for a total of four measurement over study period

Weight-for-age among children <5

time frame:
Assessed approximately every 90 days for a total of four measurement over study periodAssessed during all four follow up rounds

Biomarkers of environmental enteropathy and enteric infection

time frame:
Assessed once during round 3 (approximately 180 to 240 days following commencement of study

Eligibility Criteria

Male or female participants of any age.

Inclusion Criteria:
- Households in participating villages will be eligible to participate in the study if
they have at least one child under 5 years.
Exclusion Criteria:

Additional Information

Official title

Assessing the Health Impact of a Combined Water and Sanitation Intervention in Rural Odisha, India

Description

We will undertake a matched-cohort study among 84 villages in Ganjam district, Orissa, India
to assess the health impact of a program that provides improved water supplies and
sanitation to rural villages.

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated in September 2016.

Information provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.